quoted 6 lines Correct me if I'm wrong (and I know someone will) but didn't Autechre>>Correct me if I'm wrong (and I know someone will) but didn't Autechre
>>make their early stuff with only a drum machine and a sampler?
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>The very early stuff [also some on Incunabula] was made with an R8
>drummachine, a Yamaha DX100 synth, Juno 106 synth, 202 box & TR606 beatbox +
>2 Casio toy samplers.(SK-1 or 5). All very cheap. [at that time].
Juno 106: $200
MC202: $250 (when it was cheap, now they're up in the $700 range)
TR606: $100 (when it was cheap)
R8: $200 (deal of the century)
DX100: $150
those are some very optimistic prices and i'm not even counting the casio
samplers. assume a $100 mixer to tie it all together. that's already over
$1000 and we're not even counting the wires, blank tapes and some sort of
tape machine to record it all. i'll be generous and assume they didn't
even OWN a DAT and instead rented one from a store when they needed it.
hidden costs may include: amp, speakers, effects, compressor... i bought
all of those pieces cheap and it still cost about $1000.
even furniture can cost you. i paid $600 for a super deluxe desk (omnirax
prostation) with built in rack spaces, stands for the speakers, a slide out
tray for my computer keyboard... and i got a deal, the piece usually sells
for $800.
being serious about music costs serious money, don't let anybody kid you.
quoted 2 lines Later they added their EPS16+ sampler. (Which they used to the fullest on>Later they added their EPS16+ sampler. (Which they used to the fullest on
>Amber)
$800. plus you'd probably want a SCSI hard disk to use with it.
jon's fun music pricing fact:
my sampler cost more than my computer, and i still need to buy more RAM for
the sampler...
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